Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuous both for its lofty blue tower and for its central location, as well as notorious for its cacophonous collection of bells, (they are played but once a month) Lowell House was one of the three new units built in 1930 to complete the present House Plan. Physically it is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture; and the quiet beauty of its two courts is made all the greater by contrast with the noise and confusion which holds forth without its walls...
...town, and which are within earshot of the aforementioned wells. The lack of architectural elegance, however, is more than compensated for the group of congenial undergraduates who live in the two fine Georgian buildings, Gore and Standish Halls. It is generally believed that lack of cerise of mauve colored tower has helped to poster the democratic make-up of the House. Instead of referring to Winthrop in the House with the "so-and-so" colored dome, the House has come to be identified with the men who live there...
...dinner will be semi-formal, with all the members of the house sitting at long tables. It is hoped that all the men can go in together when lights turned on the tower signal that the doors are open. The Reverend Samuel A. Eliot '84 will then ask the blessing...
...late, an outstanding Conning Tower contributor has been Adwriter Al Graham ("Ye Oulde Al Graham"), who wrote for F. P. A. a burlesque weekly newsreel continuity. Mr. Adams' own verses have filled several books. His prose has been divided between sane and salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with...
Trane Co. makes virtually every type of air-conditioning equipment except a heating unit, its specialty being the coils which it supplies to other air conditioners, including General Electric. Trane systems have been used on such major jobs as the New York Life Insurance Co. building in Manhattan, Wrigley Tower and Sears, Roebuck's building in Chicago, the House of Representatives office building and Supreme Court building in Washington...